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DELIVERED BEFORE THE 



Republican Meeting,! 20th Ward, 

BALTIMOEE, MD. 
NOVEMBER 3, 1879. 



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FELLOW CITIZENS: 

The project of Southern consolidation is just now receiving 
the most emphatic approval and favor of the Democratic orators 
of Maryland, and they propose to extend it, in an unbroken whole, 
from the Delaware river to the gulf of Mexico. Believing that 
no greater calamity could befall this Country than the continuance 
of this pernicious partisan measure, I propose to bring to your 
notice what I had the pleasure of saying in a speech delivered bv 
me in August, 1876, in this city. I then said, '■ In the election 
of Abraham Lincoln, it was charged that his su[)port was purely 
sectional, and therefore prejudicial to the best interests of the Re- 
public and destructive of the harmonious relations existing be- 
tween the different sections of the country, prior to that time. 

So grave and weighty was this action considered, that it was 
assigned as one of the causes justifying the attem})ted withdrawal 
of the Southern States from the Union. Without stoppino- to 
inquire whether the election of Mr. Lincoln was of a sectional 
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BALTIMOEE, MD. 
NOVEIVCBER 3, 1879. 

The Crime of iSeclional Consolidation. 




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FELLOW CITIZENS: 

The project of Southern consolidation is just now receiving 
the most emphatic approval and favor of the Democratic orators 
of Maryland, and they propose to extend it, in an unbroken whole, 
from the Delaware river to the gulf of Mexico. Believing that 
no greater calamity could befall this Country than the continuance 
of this pernicious partisan measure, I propose to bring to your 
notice what I had the pleasure of saying in a speech delivered by 
me in August, 1876, in this city. I then said, " In the election 
of Abraham Lincoln, it was charged that his support was purely 
sectional, and therefore prejudicial to the best interests of the Re- 
public and destructive of the harmonious relations existing be- 
tween the different sections of the country, prior to that time. 

So grave and weighty was this action considered, that it was 
assigned as one of the causes justifying the attempted withdrawal 
of the Southern States from the Union. Without stopping to 
inquire whether the election of Mr. Lincoln was of a sectional 
character or not, or whether it really assumed the prominence which 



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was claimed for it, I venture to say it was made the occasion of 
the most extraordinary action, and, as events have verified of the 
most disastrous consequences to the whole country and especially 
to the Southern States; but suppose certain alannists were cor- 
rect in that assumption-was not that state of things brought 
about by political agitation, fostered and continued fo? a lona se- 
ries of years by evilly disposed persons, South as well as North 
Laboring all the while to comolidate and array one section of the 
Country against the other. It is a truism not to be gainsayed 
that comhinatwn^ on one side beget mvity and concert of Action on the 
other and hence, conflict and collision must sooner or later come to 
pass between the opposing elements. This agitation and counter- 
agitatron brought upon the Country one of the most desolatino- 
wars recorded in the annals of history, the recollection of which 
is too tresh in our mmds to need any particular mention . Since 
the close of the war the Country has, necessarily, made compara- 
tively slow progress towards repairing the many wrongs committed 
and the fearful consequences resulting from the bloody strife 
n\e spirit of reconcthaiion, however, has received a new impulse 
and is, T trust, about to consummate the humane work of restor' 
ing to this great Country amicable relations between and anion «• 
every section thereof, and bringing fortfj millions (40 000 000) of 
freemen together m harmonious union, each realizino- the fact that 
he IS an equal constituant part. The attainment of this great 
good, the value of which is beyond all human calculation, shSuId 
as I am sure it will be, treasured accordingly. Standino- thus on 
the vantage ground which time and circumstances hav^ vouch- 
safed unto us, and m view, as it were, of that " consummation so 
devoutly to be wished," shall the work of sectional consulidation be 
renewed and section be again arrayed against section ? Shall the 
bouth, while yet maimed and crippled, and bleeding from the late 
terrible encounter, be made, for purely partisan encls,to antao-onize 
those who, now in the blessed spirit of christian pacification 
tender to the olive branch of peace ? Shall the fell spirit which 
marked the strife of the battle field be transferred to the ballot 
box? Is the clime of the South, the land of the sun, where na- 
ture's boundless gifts meet the eye at every turn ; where the es- 
sential cerials spontaneously grow and the richest commercial 
products rise, as it were, at the bidding of the planters' will be 
made again the scenes of election brawls and deadly encounter' 
It would seem our Democratic opponents desire to have it so — 
This party now claims that all the Southern States, South Caro- 
lina alone excepted, will cast the votes "solid" for Democratic 
candidates, and if so, which is by no means certain, the act will 
prove fearfully unfortunate and certainly most unwise and impol- 
itic. Can such a course be defended any more than that of the 
alleged miited Northern vote given to Mr. Lincoln in 1860 ? The 
Country will, in the event indicated, again assume the attitude of 
section arrayed against section. It is to be hoped, however, that 
the conservative sense of the true and tried patriots of this f^i- 



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vored land, will prevent the recurrence of the combination of 
States such as was complained of in 1860." 

Should the present hostile temper of the Maryland Democ- 
racy continue as heretofore, and infuse its spirit into other commu- 
nities, I should despair of sectional reconciliation. Their pi'o- 
scriptive conduct towards the Republican party would astonish 
any one, perhaps,, except resident Marylanders. In their estima- 
tion, to be a republican is to become the most detestable of 
mankind and a deserved outcast from civil society. 

That venerable and ever to be venerated public benefactor, the 
lamented Johns Hopkins, whose princely endowments and gracious 
munificence to our people, will be affectionately remembered and 
warmly cherished as long as gratitude and admiration hold a place 
in the minds and hearts of true men, could not have been elected 
a member of the City Council of Baltimore, nor a road supervisor 
of his native county of Anne Arundel, under the despotic rule 
of the Ring Democracy. Such is the deadly poison that attaches, 
in this latitude, iti wluit was supposed to be Conservative Maryland, 
to every one who declines to co-operate with or attest his submis- 
sion to the assumed infallibility of this ruthless Ring power, 
which has so long stood a reproach to this State. The men thus 
proscribed, however, are quite good enough to pay taxes, and 
thereby support voracious band© of continuous office-holders, but, 
at this point their usefulness and acceptability cease. The burden 
of Government they must meet and discharge, but the corkela- 
TivE of equal fellowship, under the Constitution and laws, is with- 
held from them in the mast insulting manner. This condition of 
things is simply monstrous and should not be tolerated an hour. 
This community is sorely afflicted, and writhes and suffers under 
the baneful influence of political despotism, which has no parallel 
in any land where the English tongue is spoken. It is " political 
intolerance," as despotic and malignant as that which afflicted 
christian martyrdom in the iron age of infidel sway. 

Verily, those so-called leaders of Democracy 

" Bear, like theTurk, no brother near the throne." 

It is THE OUTY OF THIS GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT ITS CITIZEN'S 

IN THE Due and Proper Exercise of the Ballot. 

The Democracy affect to entertain great apprehensions of what 
they are pleased to call " bayonet rule " at or about the polls, but 
of course, this is all J)a<Uiuige and intended pu.ely for the over- 
credulous and morbid alarmists. 

" VVhen the president sent General Sheridan to New Orleans 
to quell those whom that officer was pleased to call the "banditti," 
our people, almost without distinction of p;irty, condemned the 
act as unwarrantable, but who among us now, since the election 
of November, 1875, and in view of the dark deeds that were perpe- 
trated m this latitude, on the memorable day of election, is pre- 
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not demanded and justified by the occasion ? There occasionally 
arises in certain localities, a turbulent state of things which imper- 
atively demands the strong arm of Executive interference to pro- 
tect the weak against the aggressions of criminal strength and 
organized power. An occasion occurred here during Mr. Swann's 
administration as Mayor of Baltimore City^ which, it was supposd, 
called for the interference of Thomas Watkins Ligon, Governor 
of Maryland, to shield and protect our peaceable citizens in the 
exercise of the elec ive franchise on an occasion not altogether dis- 
similar to that of November, 1875. The orderly and peace-loving 
Democrats of that day thought it highly proper that some barrier of 
protection should be raised between them and the bludgeons and 
revolvers of ruffian cut-throats, hired and paid then as they are 
hired and paid now, with the aid and connivance of a suborned 
police force, to drive honest people from the polls and carry the 
election by fraud and violence. Other cases could be named wherein 
executive interference would be justifiable. 

For instance, a State might be ajflicted with a venal or weak 
Governor, in complicity with the disturbing element, or a Governor 
who, it might be, usurped the executive chair and consequently 
would feel no anxiety about protecting the personal or political 
rights of those whom he, more than anyone else, had contributed 
to wrong and outrage. 

In such case, I hold tliat the General Government should 
intervene, at least in the election of Federal officers, to the end 
that the citizens' dearest rights of self government should not be 
trodden down by the pets and- favorites of misplaced local power. 
The ALLEGIANCE of the citizens and the protection of the Gov- 
ernment are CORRELATIVE terms. The citizen owes allegiance to the 
General as well as the State Government, and he has the char- 
tered RIGHT, in certain contingencies, to have and demand the 
protection of either or both." 

These are the sentiments I entertained and expressed in 
August, 1876, and I believe they are no less applicable now than 
they were then. The Democratic House of Representatives, in the 
session of 1876, passed a series of resolutions %("i almost unanimous 
vote, touching this subject which I take leave, here,to submit. The 
sagacious Scott Lord, the crafty member from the Em])ire State, 
who, it is said, has the rare capacity to touch the sourest points 
with sweetest terms," and the sourness in that instance certainly 
put his rare capacity to the severest test. 

In euphuistic terms he preambled thus : 

Whereas: '* The right of suff'rage prescribed by the Consti- 
tution of the several States is subject to the fifte,enth amendment 
of the Constitution of the United States, which is as follows : 
Article 15, section 1. " The right of citizens of the United States 
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by 
any State, on account of race, color or previous condition of serv- 
itude." 

And, Whereas, " The right of suffrage, so prescribed and 



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regulated, should be faithfully maintained and observed by the 
United States and the several States and the citizens thereof," and 

Whereas, '* It is asserted that the exercise of the right of 
suffrage is, in some of the States, notwithstanding the efforts of all 
good citizens to the contrary, resisted and controlled by fraud, 
intimidation and violence, so" that in sucli cases the object of the 
amendment is defeated ; " and 

Whereas : "All citizens, without distinction of race or class 
or color, are entitled to the protection conferred by such article," 
therefore. 

Be it Hesolvedhy the House of Reprefientatioes, "That all attempts 
by force, fraud, terror, intimidation or otherwise to ]n-event the 
free exercise of the right of suffrage in any State, should meet 
with certain, condign and effectual punishment, and in any ca^ 
which has heretofore occurred or that may hereafter occur in which 
violence or murder has been or shall be committed by one race or 
class upon the other, the prompt prosecution and punishment of 
the criminal or criminals in any court having jurisdiction^ is im- 
peratively demanded, whether the crime be one punishable by fine 
or imprisonment, or one demanding the penaltv of death." 

This deliberate ex})ression of the Democratic House of Eepre- 
sentatives unequivocally concedes the x-liole question as to the right 
of the General Government to intervene to protect the citizens in 
the exercise of the right of suffrage. It proclaims that the United 
States shall '• maintain and uphold the due and proper exercise 
of the inestimable right of independent self-government. No one 
has gone further; none can reasonably chiim more; and let us 
observe the practical operation of this saluturij principle of Consti- 
tutional law guaranteeing to the citizens of all races, classes or 
colors that protection which the Government owes, and cannot, in 
justice, withhold. It will be perceived, that in the intermediate 
time, between the attempt to repeal the enforcement act and the 
passage of the preamble and resolutions just referred to, the Dem- 
ocratic House of Representatives executed one of the most remark- 
able somersaults known to the legislative history of the world. — 
Had those india rubber gentlemen stalked into the House heels 
uppermost, the astonishment could not liave been greater or the 
scene more ludicrous, nor am I prepared to say that the Country 
would have lost anything by the substitution of heels for heads. 

It is here to be seen that the House of Representatives in the 
session of 1876, formally asserted that the right of the bollot 

"SHOULD BE FAITHFULLY MAINTAINED AND OBSERVED BY THE 

United States against force, fraud, intimidation" or other 
attempts to infringe the right of suffrage ; thus i)lacing the obli- 
gation of the United States on the same footing as the " several 
States and the citizens thereof." No language could more fully 
and completely cover the ground of the present disputed question 
as to the right and duty of the Government to presrrve the purity 
of the ballot box. It is highly probable that Mr. Scott Lord, when 
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reported to have been given Mr. Tilden in November, 1876; that 
is, Kentucky gave 75,000; Georgia, 75,000; Texas, 75,000; mak- 
]jc\g in all. 225.000 in three States. It was also reported (I quote 
fi-om the Baltimore San, November 13th, 1876,) that Mississippi 
gave Mr. Tilden 45,000 majority and Tennessee 50,000, showing 
thereby that live of the Southern States gave Mr. Tilden 320,000 
majority. Now in view of these startling disclosures, Mr. Scott 
Lord might well say that the right of suffrage icas " resisted and con- 
trolled by force, fraud, intiviidation and violence. 

It is " force, fraud, intimidation and violence " we have most 
reason to apprehend in the ensuing election, and how opportune 
it would be were it in our power^ to invoke, successfully, the Gov- 
ernment to ^'■maintain and preserve " our rights in the premises, as 
Mr. Lord has so well said, should be done. Looking to the past, 
we may reasonably fear that the high places hitherto honored by 
GIANT INTELLECTS, will be again, in some cases, at least, usurped 

BY PIGMIES. 

When the formidable riot, which prevailed here in 1877, and 
held this city in a state of siege for several days, it will be remem- 
bered, I am sure, that our Centennial Governor made haste to 
invoke the strong arm of the Federal executive to suppress an 
insurrection too strong to be overcome by the State authority, and 
he was, no doubt, greatly comforted on the arrival of the United 
States troops, which, perhaps, saved this staunch states-rights 
advocate from being impaled by the infuriated mob. The Gover- 
nor of West Virginia and the Governor of the great State of 
Pennsylvania were not slow, in this respect, to follow the exam))le 
of our de facto Governor. It would be well, perhaps, for those wor- 
thy gentlemen who profess to have such horror of Federal soldiers 
to pause and remember those fearful events of 1877, and extract, 
if they can, wisdom from the occurence of them. 

The Electoral Commission. 

Our Democratic opponents let no occasion pass to denounce, 
in the most iiiterporate language,what they are pleased to call "The 
Electoral Fraud." Now, fellow citizens, permit me to ask you 
if a business difficulty should arise between two or more gentle- 
men, and for the purpose of bringing about an amicable adjust- 
ment they should agree to refer the matter to the arbitrament of 
third persons, each party selecting a friend with privilege to choose 
a third, and submit the cause of complaint to them for final set- 
ment, the contesting parties agreeing^, at the same time, to abide 
by the award of their respective friends. Now it is supposed that 
the arbitrators, thus indifferently chosen, would return an award 
in favor of one of the parties, do you not think t/iaf both jmrties, to 
this arbitration agreement, should stand by and perform the award mitli- 
out complaint. 

Do you think it would be honorable in the party' against 
whom the award was rendered, to denounce the tribunal of his own 
selection, as having acted dishonestly and thereby perpetrated a 



despicable fraud? I think your business sense of what is right 
between man and man would, at once, prompt you to say that 
both parties to the submission should abide the result without mur- 
mer or complaint. Now the supposed case, thus presented to you, 
is in principle analogous to the Electoral Commission. The act 
of Congress, creating the Electoral Commission of fifteen persons 
was passed in January, 1877, and the members thereof were 
chosen as follows : that is, five from the Senate, five from the 
House of Eepresentatives and four of the Associate Justices of 
the Supreme Court of the United States ; ihe Judges were taken, 
one from the first, third, eighth and ninth circuits respectively, 
and these four Judges were empowered to select the fifth Asso- 
ciate Justice. Before proceeding to act the Commissioners took 
and subscribed the following oath of office : 

"-^, , do sole mnh/ swear that I in'U impartially examine and 

consider all questions submitted tv the Commission of which J am a 
member, and a true Judgment give thereon, agreeably to the Constitution 
and the laws, so help me God" 

These fifteen Legislative and Judicial officers constituted 
"The Electoral Commission," to whom were submitted "all 
the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the 
electoral vote." The vote having been counted, it was made the 
duty of the Preeident of the Senate to announce the same, and 
this " a inoiinceinent should be deemed a sufficient declaration of 
the persons elected President and Vice President of the United 
States." The right of the defeated candidates to institute pro- 
ceedings in the Federal Courts was reserved and recognized in 
this statute. It is well known that Rntlierford B. Hayes was de- 
chired to be duly elected President of the United States, and 
William A. Wheeler was, in like manner, declared to be duly 
elected Vice President of the United States. From the date of 
this announcement to the present hour the Democratic Reju-esent- 
ative gentlemen, have in season and out of season, and without re- 
gard to time or place.bestowedthe most virulent abuse, not on Iv upon 
their own Commission, but the President and Vice President of 
the United States have been stigmatized as the fraudulent recip- 
ients and occupants of their respective offices. 

Now this Commission was a Democratic measure, concurred 
in and agreed to by a large majority of the Democratic Party in 
and out of Congress ; it was, therefore, a tribunal of their own 
choice. The majority of the Committee was com})Osed of five 

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THREE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SU- 
PREME COURT OP THE UNITED STATES. The charge brought 
against those officials was to-fold. They were accused, and tlie 
accusation is repeated daily, of fraudulently linding and adjudg- 
ing that Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler were duly elected to their 
respective offices, and thereby committed the hienous crime of 
perjury, and at the same time more than insinuating that the Pres- 
ident and Vice President were participants in the infamous charges 
preferred and urged with such vindictive zeal . 1 1 avou Id be diflicult 



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if not impossible, to find in the whole range of human action a 
parallel to this inexpressibly mean and dastardly conduct. That 
men, claiming to be respectable gentlemen, should asperse and 
vilify an arbitration of their own selection, simply because its deci- 
sion was adverse to them, is almost incredible. It is shocking to 
every sense of decency and is a reproach to the American people. 
This scandalous course is no more exempt from condemnation than 
the gathering of a mob to denounce, criticise, and, if possible, to 
reverse a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

This court of Arbitration was mutually chosen and agreed 
upon by the parties interested; it was the tribunal of all parties 
concerned and its judgment was final and conclusive on the queistions 
submitted, and it was equally binding and efficacious as against 
all the world; it closed the consideration of all antecedent facts 
upon which the judgment was predicated, and is, in legal parlance, 
res adjiidicata Yet, notwithstanding this conceded finality, the 
Democracy of the Country meanly and cowardly assail, without 
shame or blush, the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, 
a court of their own choice, and seek to reach and bespatter, with 
the venom of their malignant hate, the beneficiaries, under a 
proceeding which they lack the courage and the manliness to im- 
peach directly They had the alternative of appealing to the 
Federal Coui-ts, but they have prudently refrained from doing so. 
Some years ago, certain differences arose between the United States 
and Great Britain and for the purpose of biinging about an ami- 
cable adjustment of them an arbitration was mutually agreed 
upon. This arbitration met at Geneva. Switzerland, and, on in- 
vestigation had, awarded tliat England should pay lo the United 
States a very large amount, I think, fifteen millions of dollars, 
($15,000,000,) and, at a subsequent time, a similar international 
conference, on the Fishery question, awarded that the United States 
should pay to Enghmd five millions of dollars, ($5,000,000.) The 
" Stalwart Englisher " complained not, nor faltered in the payment 
of the amount so awarded, ($15,000,000). To have refused the 
payment of this award would havecompelled the instant retirement 
of the English Ministry and driven it to the shapes of private life, 
if not to lasting shame and dishonored obscurity. The award in 
favor of England was met by us, and paid as only honest men could 
do. Neither tlie Government at Washington, nor any responsible 
man in this Country, contemplated, for a moment, repudiating the 
award of $5,000,000, or of denouncing the arbitrators thereof as 
guiliy of fraud in the matter. The money was paid and no hon- 
orable man would have it otherwise. 

The Electoral Commission was considered, by a large majority 
of both parties, in Congress, as truly a peace measure, and the 
safest and most practical mode of relieving the Country of the 
dangerous dilemma into which it had been brought by the heated 
Presidential contest of 1876. 

The determination the of Electoral Commission possesses all 
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be supported and upheld as inviolate, and protected everywhere, 
against the rude assaults of those pernicious demagogues, the 
worst enemies that infest any country, and the heartless betrayers 
ofthe people. 

In dealing with the question of fraud, the Democratic orators 
of Maryland conoenienthj overlook this State and utterly fail to 
explain, deny or justify the outrages which lay at their own doors. 
Now it must be borne in mind that the State Government is abso- 
lutely under the control of the Democratic party. Every officer 
under the Governor and Mayor of Baltimore City is a Democrat. 
The Judiciary is a Democratic unit. The Court of Appeals, the 
Circuit Courts of the counties, and the Courts of Baltimore City, 
including the Justices of the Peace, are all in the hands and keep- 
ing of the Democratic Party. In Baltimore City, all the Courts 
are presided over by Democratic Judges. The State's Attorney is 
a Democrat, the Sheriff \i a Democrat, the Grand Jury is Demo- 
cratic, being chosen by the Sheriff, and the Police Commissioners 
are all Democratic and partisan. There is one other class of per- 
sons in Maryland, known as " Officers of Registration." The 
Governor of this State is empowered to appoint one register for 
each of the wards of Baltimore City and one for each election 
district in the counties. It is the sniom duty of these officers to 
reister the qualified voters of the State, and this duty is concededly 
one of transcendent iinportance and delicate trust and execu- 
tion. It is supposed that the occupants of such offices should be 
gentlemen of recognized ability and strict integrity of character, 
but such is not the case. All of these registers are Democratic 
of the most pronounced type and per consequence jmrtisan, and a 
large number of them are corrupt and abandoned to the last de- 
o-ree. To be corrupt, ahandoned and partisan, however, in Maryland, 
are necessary ingredients of character to induce the appointment 
as register. Every man applying to be registered is required to 
make oath, among other things, that he has not been "convicted of 
bribery or larceny or other infamous crime^^ but this idle ceremony is 
prudently omitted, in the enumerated virtues of official fitness of 
these registers, and they are thus left free and untrammeled, to fix, 
with glaring injustice, the fate of thousands of honest voters and 
clothe countless fraiidident jiretenders with the invaluable right of 
suffrage. These registers are appointed, it would seem,_/b;- snch tcork, 
and they scarcely ever fail to gratify the generous expectations enter- 
tained of them. And thus we see what pharisean Democrats are 
capable of doing whilst affecting to be virtuous. It is the beani of 
willful, deliberate blindness, and not the mote of accident that 
closes their visions to the perpetration of the scandalous work of 
disfranchising their neighbors. Thus, possessed Avith the whole 
power of State Government, it would seem there is no reason that 
should prompt or instigate the committal of frauds on the ballot 
box. Such, however, is not the case. Maryland is not, in fact, Demo- 
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to, to keep and preserve Democratic ascendency ; for, if otherwise, 
the violation of the election laws could only be perpetrated through 
a spirit of personal deviltry. These people denounce the frauds of 
the old American Party in the strongest possible terms, and in the 
same breath express the determination to commit frauds on the 
ballot box, sufficient to secure the success of their candidates, and 
this scandalous purpose is announced and proclaimed with all the 
indifference and sang froid fittingly characteristic of the most 
abandoned free-booter. It is a loonder that the term Democracy does 
not, in the moment of its utterance, rot npoti their false, their jierjidious 
lips, as the fruit of the Dead Sea tarns to ashes. Democrats forsooth : 
Why, my fellow countrymen, the ruthless, so-called leaders of the 
Democracy of the present day, bear no more resemblance to the 
gallant men who followed in the line of Jefferson, Madison and 
Jackson, the illustrious co-workers and architects of our Uountry's 
greatness than the merest popin jay does to the proud eagle, the 
emblum of our nationality. Methinks I can see the King power 
lying prostrate, like some huge monster in the last throes of im- 
pending dissolution, offending the eye and befouling the pure air of 
Heaven with the noxious odor of the decayed carcas. " Delenda 
est Carthago" which may be practically rendered, Tke Ring must he 
destroyed. 

And now, Fellow Citizens, let me say to you, as Hamilcar 
swore the infant Hannibal on the altars of his country to bear 
eternal hostility to the Romans, so I here^ to-night, invoke you to 
wage unremitting war against the Ring power of Maryland till not a 
vestige is left to signalize its infamous existence ; then, indeed, 
we will have achieved and regained the priceless heritage of repre- 
sentative self-government, no less imposing than a second decla- 
ration OF independence, and far surpassing,in moral grandeur, 
our National deliverance of 1776. The patriots of that day, it must 
be remembered, struggled,with all the ardour of men determined to 
be free, against the invasion of a foreign enemy, but we are now 
compelled, in defence of our blood-bought personal i-ights, to re- 
sist the hostile encroachment of a domestic, an unnatural 

FOE, goaded on by PARTISAN MALIGNITY AND INSATIATE GREED. 

This enemy is, in a word, the Bourbon Democracy, flanked and 
supported by despicable corps of subsidized political Hessians, 
the very name of which is revolting to the sense and decency of 
every honest gentleman. 

In any event, wherein the personal or political rights of our 
countrymen are or may be menaced or encroached upon, I would 
have this, my native State, steadily to the front, her " banner full 
high advanced," holding, as she ever has done, the post of danger, 
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And now, Fellow Citizens, give me your countenance and 
favor in a few words of affectionate greeting to Maryland. — 
Maryland, the birth place of religious freedom and toleration, 
may her future be, not only prosperous and happy, but may it 
prove to be the beautiful counterpart of her past historic 
i-enown. 



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